Overview

This editorial explores possible research avenues for experiences and events across time. Examples from physics, social psychology, and tourism show the richness of actual-world information, the interconnected nature of change, and the relativity of human interpretation. The discussion argues that research methods must connect broad regularities with detailed observations while remaining open to emerging variables and information often treated as noise.

Topics covered

• Different disciplinary approaches to the nature, explanation, and experience of events.

• The limits of capturing a changing actual world through a restricted set of observations and variables.

• The need for methods that connect general and detailed findings and can recognize potentially functional change.

Original publication

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